Ghost-like tribute to dead son in wedding photo

A ghostly image of Anna Bozman Thompson's son, Lake, who died of leukemia six months ago, was photoshopped in her family wedding photo.

A ghostly image of Anna Bozman Thompson's son, Lake, who died of leukemia six months ago, was photoshopped in her family wedding photo.

Photo: Brandy Angel Photography

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A ghostly image of Anna Bozman Thompson's son, Lake, who died of leukemia six months ago, was photoshopped in her family wedding photo.

A ghostly image of Anna Bozman Thompson's son, Lake, who died of leukemia six months ago, was photoshopped in her family wedding photo.

Photo: Brandy Angel Photography

Ghost-like tribute to dead son in wedding photo

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An 8-year-boy who lost his life to leukemia six months ago was "reunited" with his family in a digitally enhanced wedding photo that brought tears to the eyes of some of her Facebook friends.

A faint, almost ghost-like image of Lake Bozman was superimposed on a wedding photo of Anna Bozman Thompson and her family. The photo, shared on Facebook, prompted more than 3,000 likes and about 300 comments, many offering their love and prayers.

"I do know that ️Lake has been watching over us especially when we got married," Thompson wrote. "He made sure that it would be a day that none of us would forget. Although I felt his presence that day and I was actually happy, it was almost unbearable to take family pictures without him."

Brandy Angel, whose nonprofit takes pictures of family of children with incurable cancers, digitally manipulated the photo.

In the photo and others taken at the wedding shoot, a light appears beside Thompson in the field that never changed shape or color. Angel told the New York Daily News that when she informed Thompson about the light, Thompson said, "I told you my baby would show up."

In her Facebook post, Thompson said that despite her anxiety over the wedding shoot, she was reassured by the results.

"I needed this picture more than she or anyone could ever know. THIS is my family. And we will be together again," she wrote.